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MAY, 1961

Usa Lane Edward Lasker William Lombardy Erich Marehand Edmund Nash Ernest Qlfe Joseph Reinhardt Samuel Reshevsky Jerry Spann Ellra Stoekhold Kester Svendsen Raymond Weinstein ~'red M . W"en

LETTERS EXPERIENCE

The announcement in the March issue of CHESS UFE that Alekhine's famous book of the New York 1924 Tournament. has been reprinted, brought a host o[ childhood memories back to me; not all of them pleasant.

I was 10 years old when I was pre· scnted with this wonderful book, and I spent many thrilling hours playing over the many exciting games and Alck· hine's brilliant variations. However dis· astcr struck soon after, when I tried to apply one of Alekhine's recommenda· tions in a game against an adult playel·. I promptly lost a piece on the eighth move. It seems that 1 had stumbled on (or rather "over') the one and only flaw in the entire book. Here is what hap· pencd: 1 was playing Black in the well­known Dragon Varia,tion of the Sicilian: (1. P·K4, P·QB4; 2. N·KB3, P.Q3; 3. P.Q4, PxP; 4. NxP, N·KB3; S. N.QB3, P·KN3; 6. B·K2, B·N2; 7, 0·0, N·B3; 8, B·K3, ........ ) Here Alekhine writes: (page 125 of the new edition; game Tartakower/ Reti): "more cautious is 8. p .KR3, for now Black can play N·KN5."

Can he? After a quarter of a century I am still smarting from the sequel, which not only caused loss of a piece but also struck a fatal blow to my hith· crto implicit faith in authority. After 8. . ....... , N·KNS; White simply played 9. BxN, leaving to Black the choice of thrce losing variations:

9. BxN, BxN; 10. KBxQB, BxN (or BxB); 11. 8xNP, Ind wins. 9. BxN, NxN; 10. BxB wins.

And finally the main variation: 9. 8xN, BxB; 10. NxN, BxQ; 11. NxQ,

BxP: 12. KR·B, B·Q6; 13. NxNP, P·QR4; and white has now the choice between the foll owing two continuations:

15. R·Q, B·BS; 16. B·N6, QR·N; 17. NxRP, and White remains a piece ahead, or White can proceed with the much more aggressive;

15. N·QS, BxNP; 16. R·B7, BxR; 17. RxP ch, K·B; 18. NxQP, and Mate in Two.

I hope that any reader who is going to be one of the lucky owners of this truly wondcrful book, will beware of this one gruesome pitfall.

OPINION

LEONARD KLUGMANN New York City

Your comment on the amusing pic­turcs on the front cover pages of your March issue, mentioning Bobby Fisch­er's interest in palmistry, was no doubt the unconscious cause for my thinking of handwriting·analysis when turning to the page which shows the photograph and the signatures of the participants in the 1924 tournament.

Uninformed opinion commonly rele· gates palmistry and handwriting·analysi~ to the field of tea lcaf reading, astrol· ogy, and othCl' intellectual garbage.

However, there is no question that a person's movements, including those which produce his handwriting, are part of his inherited distinguishing fea· tures, just like the lines oC his hands, so that the attempt to read character traits into these features on the basis of the large amount of experience rna· terial available is surc ly a legitimate subject for scientific research. I have come across three or (our most astonish· ing handwriting analysts myself. From a fcw pages of a person's handwriting they could pl'actically tell his whole life history.

Looking at the signatures of the play· ers with whom I was honored to com­pete in 1924, I was astonished to note for the first time the cxtraordinary sim· ilarity between Emanuel Lasker's sig· nature and my own, and-also for the first time--the perhaps not ailogether silly question occurred to me whether, lacking other evidence, this might have served as an acceptable argument fot" his often expressed opinion that our families were probably related, although we never could find out how. It was not until a few weeks before his death that he told me he had seen a definite proof. A young man from Australia had visited him and shown him a Lasker "family tree," and there I was, dangling from one of the branches.

On the page facing the photograph you recall Capablanca's defeat by Reti. Your description is dramatic, but as the only survivor of the players in that great tournament I may be permitted to record what actually happened, and what was no less dramatic. The onlook· crs did not only not sit in stunned si· lence but started such a noisy commo· tion that we players, not knowing what had happened, loudly called them to or· der. But then NOI'bert Lederer, the tour· nament director, announced: "Capablan­ca just resigned," and we all rushed over to his table. There he and Reti sat, both smiling in sort of an embarrassed way, Reti looking as if he didn't really quite believe he had defeated Capablanca, the unbeatable, and the latter seemingly still a little dazed from the shock of a totally unexpected disaster. The only person entirely unaffected by all this was Emanuel Lasker who, as usual, sat at his table in such utter concentration that he remained completely unaware of anything going on around him. By the way, Capablanca was much impressed by the type of chess that Reti played, and when the two met again a couple of weeks later for their second game, the Cuban seemed a little unsure of him· self, an impression he had never been apt to give anyone. Retl actually got the better of thc game but failed to assume the initiative, and then Capa· blanca made short shrift of him.

The interesting article written for "Zvaigzne" by Tal, which Eliot Hearst reproduced in his always interesting

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CHESS KALEIDOSCOP~, amusingly re­veals that Tal shares with other out­standing geniuses a certain naive levLty in dealillg with questions outside his own [ield belore fa miliarizing hill1SCU with what great thinkers in the foreig n fields concerned have had to say in the matter.

Whether chess is an art or a science. or both, is a question which can no doubt be answered with greater authority by great artists and great scientists who arc chess amateurs than by great chess players who are amateurs in art or science. Henri Poincare once said : "Le jeu d'echec ne peut jamais devenir unc science, pareeque les differents eoups d'une partie ne se resemblent pas." I would certainly love to be able to claim that chess is a science, but I don't see how Poincare's argument can be met. Wben my friend A verbaeh cor· rectly analyzes countless variation s of an ending, he has not done anything remotely resembling science, because he has not evolved a general law. He has merely worked up a table of (acts, en· riching the existing tabulations o( varia· tions which have erroneously been called "Chess theory" while in reality they are not theory but analysis. And when thousands of people watch a chess match in a theatre, as thousands of peo­ple listen to il symphony in an orches· tra hall , it makes chess an art just as little as baseball becomes an art just because it is fo llowed by thousand s in great excitement.

It is true that a beautiful chess com· bination is apt to evoke in us a feeling akin to aesthetic emotion, the unfailing effect of a great piece 01 fine art which distinguis hes Lt from all other types of human e motion. But I think we should be satisfied drawi ng this modest parallel with Art, in order not to recall Whis· tler's ghost (rom his grave and have him mist3kenly include chess with the things he had in mind when once he said:

" II fa miliarity can breed contempt, certainly Art has been brought to its lowest stage of intimacy." In short, unless by coining loose,

meaningless definitions of our own we bring down Science and Fine Art [rom the high pedestal on which the Gods have placed them, all we can say about thei.r relations to chess is that, like them, our game a ppeals strongly to our intellectual and aesthetic sensitivities.

DR. EDWARD LASKER

CHALLENGE I have noticed of late a general effort

to promote chess on a junior level. In conjunction with this idea, I would like to suggest a national high school team championship, or perhaps some inter· state high school competition. Speaking for New Je rsey high school students, I would li ke 10 put oul a general chal· lenge to the high school team of any other state. New Jersey is prepared to field at least a fi ve·board team.

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PETER IRWIN 4 Iris Road Summit, N.J .

An Importont Messoge

Last summer, six American students ventured into the -Soviet Union, alighted from a plane in Leningrad and

battled for almost a month with 13 other nations from

every corner of the globe for the World's Stlldents Team

Championship, What they did there is now a part of

American chess history - emerging as World's Clwm­

pions - the first world's championship team that this

country has had in nearly twenty-fiGe years, Eager to

defend their title lind the prestige of the United States,

a member of that team last yem' and non-playing captain

this year writes:

"The American Team is now being organized and selected

and I can honestly say that it looks even stronger than last year.

We have every possible chance to keep the title for the United

States, but the team may not be able to compete! The Depart·

ment of State financed our trip last year but there are no funds

available this year, We need $5,000 to get the team to Helsinki

m order to play from July 17 to July 31. The only possible way

for US to get there is by contTibutions from chessplayers and

specifically from USCl<'" members_ Can we count on the USCF

to help us get to Helsinki?"

Eliot Hearst

YES, ELIOT, YOU CAN COUNT ON USCF!

Members, send your contributions NOW ($1.00 each would com­pletely finance the trip- send more if possible) 10:

Eliot Hearst

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CHESS LIFE

Botvinnik Regains World Championship After two long months of grueling battle, Mikhail

Botvinnik of i'>'loscow defeat(.'(i ~Hkhail Tal of Riga, Lat­via to regain the World's Championship he had lost to Tal just onc year agO. The final score of the 21 game match was 13-8 in favor of Botvinnik. Only six draws were registered in this keenly fought hattie. Botvinnik originally won the World's Championship in 1948 in a special tOlirnUmcnt organized after Alekhine left the championship vacant hy his death in 1946. Since that time, Botvinnik has played two drawn mutches with David Bronstein in 1951 lmd 1954. In 1957 he lost a match to Vassily Smyslov with a score of 12Y2·9lh ,how ever, he regained the title the following year by scoring

Philidor ..................... .. ............. 1745·1795 de Lfl Bourdonnnflis ............. 1834-1840 Stflunton .......................•... ....... 1841.1851 Anderuen ...... .... ......... •.......... 1851.1858 Morp.hy .........................•.......... 1858·1863 Steinitz .................................... 1866·1894 Lflsker ........................... ~ .......... 1894·1921 CflpflblencfI ...................•.......... 1921 ·1927 Alekhine .......................•.......... 1927·1935 Euwe ............................... ......... 1935-1937 Alekhine .......................•.......... 1937·1946 Botvinnik .....................•.......... 1948·1957 Smyslov .........................•.......... 1957.1958 Botvinnik .....................•.......... 1958·1960 Tfli .................................•.......... 196G-1961 Botvinnik .....................•.......... 1961 ·

l2lh·8~ over Smyslov. Last year in ~'I arch, Tal scored 12 1fl-8~z after qUlIlifying to play for the championship in the Candida tes Tournament in Yugoslavia. At 23, he was the youngest person ever to win the championship of the world. Uotvinnik now keeps the championship until 1963 when he must defend it against the winner of the 1962 <;andidatcs Tournament. A special ruling by F .LD.E. has done away with the previous practice of allOWing a dethroned champion to playa rematch duro ing the following year after losing the title. The first twelve games appeared in the April issue of CHESS LIFE. Games thirteen to twenty.one can he found on accompanying pages.

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T fl/)lI1!h IIIl "offfcwl" cflO lIIlJiOll$hip of tile tcorM wos held ulltil the t i llle of Em-7JU/nllel lAsker, tile players listed above /u:/ort' 1894 were generally "recognized" durirltt. their dau u"' 11111 strongl!~·t 1)layer, in tile world at that time The sc:ene is Mosc:ow--outside the TfI'·Botvlnnlk matc:h. These are the

thflt c:ould not get tic:kets to flctually see the matc:h in progress. c:rowds

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21. 8-Q6 2'2. Ca,tlu :21. P·kl. 2 • . Q.ka2 2S. PxP 26. axKt 27. QxPch 21. K-KI2 2'. Q.Q' lG. R· II 11. Kxlll n . K· KU ll. 11-0' 34. 111-0 35. P -III3 U. IIIxll 37. Q.Kl 311. 0.02 39. p ·a. • • Q-k3 '1 . III-Q '2. Q-Q3 43. Q.Q4 44. Q·K3 45. III.Q4 46. P· III4 47. R·Q2 41. R.QII2 .,. Kxlll se. K·KI3 51. P.R5 52. K·Kn 53. Q.KI6ch 5 • • Q. llkh 55. Q.1I7ch

Q.Kn

••• P·R. ...

P-Q.4 ... ' ·K

It·Qa II ·R5

••• K·Q2 .... II·KI4 Q.1II3 ... K·K2 K-K

R·1I2 K", ... ••• Q.KU Q.Kt. K·KIl Q.'I

Q'Kt7ch Q" I

Rxlllch g ·Kt7ch ... Q-Qkh

Q •• I

••• K·R2 ,.,

56. Q·llkh K_R2 57. o.a7ch K· III SI. p -a5 o.kl n . Q.a lch K· III2 4(1. Q.a7ch K· III ". Q·aSch K· R2 '2. Q·85ch K.Kt2 6'. Q.Kt6ch K·III 64. Q.a6ch K_R2 '5. Q.a5ch K·Kt2 66. Q-Q4 Q.K7ch 67. K·1II3 Q.K'. 61. PxP PxP 6t. Q-a3 g .al 70. K-1II2 Q.K7ch 71. K_Ktl Q·Qkh 72. Q. lll Q.K88 72. K·Al Q·Kf4 74. K-1II3 0.111 75.0.113 Q-QKtt 76. P-III6ch KxP 77. Q. II6ch K·1II2 71_ Q-Q7ch K· Kt 79. QxKP Q. Rlch 80. K· KI' Q-Qlch 11. K-Kt2 Q.Q5ch 82. K-A2 QxK'P 83. Q·Ktkh K· 1I2 84. QxPch K-Q 85. Q·Bkh Q.K2 16. Q.a. Q·K) 17. K·KI2 K.K U. Q.A4ch K·a'l at. Q. II4ch K. K to. K-al Adlol,lrned" "Draw Ig ... H I,Ipon.

SEVENTEENTH GAME KING' S INDIAN DEFENSE

BDTVINNIK TAL IIlack

III.KtS B.QK'2

III.Ql R. AS

III.QIIS

Whit. 1. P .Q4 2. P·K' 1. P.QB. • . Kt-QB3 5. P·8' , . B·K3 7. a-Q3 I . KKI· Kl ,. PxP 10. Cutlu 11 . Q·Ql n . Q • • Q 12. II ·Kt 14. Q·K IS. K·III 16. P· KKIl 17. K'xKt 11. Q. 1I2 n . P·B' 21'. Px,. 21. P.KS 22 . R·Q5 23. K·Kt 24. Kt·1I3 25. pxKI 1'. II·K4 27. Q.Kt) 21. Q.1I2 n . IIxllP 3'. Q.KU 21. P·K14 :no Q •• 3 33. K·III 34. pXP".P. n . BxP 36. Q·Q3 37. 8-K. 31. 11·113 39. Kt·K2 '1' .•• 112 41 . Kt·KI3 42 . 8 ·K1

P·KKtl .·K'2

P.Q3 KI-I(1I3 QKt-Q2 Cnlt ..

P ·K4 Kt·R'

••• P·Q.3 Q·K2 K'·B4 K'·Kl a·.,

ICIC'·.S KhKI P.KIII" P.K'l ...

a .QKt2 P-II4ch

. ·KI2 KI·1I2 Klxlll QIII ·Q II·QIII

P·QKf4 Q·Q2 KIII·K .... ,., P.1II3 ,. .•.

K.x" o.Kts R·KKI QIII·K ... Q. IIIS

o.K14 ... Q.K.

42. A-Q ... P·QR3 45. B-K" <Wi. II-K3 47. KI· . 48. B·Kn. ... Q.Q2 5G. P-R.3 51. QxQ 52. B·B5 53. K'·K) 54. AxR 55. a-Q4ch 56. KI·KI4 51. K_K' st. Kt-K5 st. KtxA 60. K'_IU 61. K-1I2 '2. P· R' ~. KtxP(' ) 64. K·1l1 65. 8 ·KI 66. BxP 67. K·K4 68. Kt·BS 6t. K.Q5 70. Kt·K' 71. KI·1I3 72. K·1I5 73. KI·KI 7'. Kt.o2 75. K· K16 76. Kt-KU 71. KxP 78. K· K" 79. Kt_AS 80. K. KI7 11 . KI·KI3 n . Kt· IIIS n. K·B7 Resigns

R.KKt'! P·R5

Q.KI7 ... R.Q2 R·BI a .. K·K'

B·Kf4 QBx" a ..

QllxP •. , K·R2 PxP 11·115 P · III' P ·1II7 a .. B.Q2

B·Kt. K.Kt3 K·B4 B-B' II·K4 K·K3

1I.o3d> II-Kt7 ".

a ·akh ... ' a ·a4ch

II ·K7 II ·K' K·.'

1I ·8Sch

EIGHTEENTH GAME CARD· KANN DEFENSE

TAC Whll.

1. P·K' 2. "-04 ) . P' KS

•• S. •• ,. • •• It. Qxll 11. Pxp 12. Px.

13.

P.Q8) .... .... .. _Kill) .... .....

P.K3 8 ·KI4 .xKI ... 'xK'

I<"~.~

U . B-Kl 14. K·B 15 • • .QKI 16. B-IIIJ 11. R-Q 11. K·KI2 n. QxQ

IIOTVI ...... IK Bla(k Q· III4ch KKI·K2

III.oK' Q.1II5

QxRP Q.R3 ... . ..,

R·K13 KI.4

KI·1I5 , .. 20. P-AS 21 . R-QKI 21. I( ·K13 23. " ·114 2'. RxR

25. II.Q. U . R.Q 21. P· lt3 21 . .. ·as I'. RxK' 1G. It·QR 31 . K· II. 32. P· Kts 13. KxP

KI· lll K'·Kt5 KI·1II7 KlxB

P.oK,. K·K2 , .. ,

PxPch ...

34. IIxP 35. K·.' 16. II·K14 37. R·QB 3 • • B· BS It. PxP 40. R.Q ". B-K' '2. Resigns

-111·.3 IHI]

R-Q.' P· 1I3

PxPch KlxKP

K·Q1 R·B4

NINETEENTH GAME KING'S INDIA'" DEFENSE

BOTVtNNIK TAL White

1. "-Q~ 2. P.QII. 3. K"Qlll ' . P· K. S. P ·.3 6. II·K3 7. Q.Q2 I. II.QJ t . PxP lG. KI·III' n . Kt·Kt, 12. II .QII2 13. QxQ 14. Kt·K2 15. P·1I5 U . K· IIl 17. KR·Q ,.. RxR " . KlxKI 20. II ·KI 21 • • x. U . 1t.oII 21. P ·B. 2~ . Klx" 25. K·K3 2'. P· KS 27. II·K' 2 •. P·QIII' 2' . R.QR 3G. KI.Q5ch 31. IIxll 32. 11 ·11' 31. IIIx" 34 • • ·KIS 35. RxP 36. K·1I2 l7. a ·)(2 31. R· R'ch

Kt·KB3 P .Q3

P· KKI3 a ·Kt'!

Caslles P.QR)

P·1I3 P·K4 ...

P-QK" R·1II2 a ·K' ...

R·Ktl P.QIII4

B·KB

••• KKt.ol KlxKI K8"P KIllB K"'11 ... P.QB.

••• K·K2 R-82

••• II·K'6 axK' ... ,

Kt-Kt5 ... , K-K3

Kt·Q4ch ., . ... , K-Q2

3t. III·1II7ch 40. P.oKtl '1. K·a3 '2. P· III' 41. a · ... 44. P.KU '5. K·Bl 46. PxP 47. R_R2 48. R·R 49. A· K 50. R. K'ch 51 . K·K3 52. B.Q3 53. 8·111 54. A·II' 55. R· III 56. R.oR, 57. R·Kkh 51. A·Qkh st. K·B4 60. K·K3 " . R.Kkh '2. R·KS U . RxKII .. 64. R.B2 65. RxKt 66. R·KIII2 67. K-Q2 , .. R· R' 69. K-K3 7G. K·1I4 71 . R-Qkh n. R.akh 7). R·Kllch 74. R-Q5' 7S. R.)(lkh Rntgnl

IIla,k Kt-a2 R·Q7 ,. .•. K·1I3 P· R3 ... ,

" -K" ••• P· K'S K·KI3

K'· K14 KI-Q3 K·1I2 K·1I3

III·KtS .... KIK4 KI·K5 .... K·K3

K'·Q7ch .~. ... , ... , Kt-QS

Klxllch K", IIIKSch

P·!IS R·Q5(h III.Q6ch

P·II' K·B5

K-K" K-III7

K·Kt7 K· III

TWENTIETH GAME

TAL While

I . P-K' 2. p .Q, ) . ..·K5 4. " ·KIII' S. K'·Kt , . KI ·K13 7. KI ·1I3 I. II ·K3 , . II .Ql 10. Pxll 11 . QK'·K2 12. Q.Q2

CARo-KANN

P-QII) p .Q4 B·B.

p -KR3 P·K1

K,·K2 KI.Q2

a _R2 ... P-KR'

P-KKt3 Kt·KKt

13. Cntles,Q B.R3 ... Kt·Rl Q.K2

Kp"P Kt ·1I

Kt-K3

14. K·Kt U . PXB 16. P·K' 17. "x" ,.. Q.RS n . QR·KB 20. R·1I3 21 . Q.R. 2'2. R.oII 23. KI ·a '1.' . KI ·K3 2S . p ·KK,) 26. R·KII' 27. Kt·Kt2 21. Q.R3 2'. R·QII3 3G. It·Kt3 IT . Q·Q6 32. QxQ )3. R·. 34. R· • 35. KKI.B • 36. "xKt 17. R·K" 1 • • R· III 39. Kt·1I3 '1'. KI· R' 41 . K·.2 41. K.o2 '3. K·K3 44. " · Kf4

••• Q.Ktl Kt·Kt5

Cutl .. P·KU Kt·R7

Kt· KtS QR.K R·82 P.R3 Q.R2 Q·K' o..

KI· lt7 ••• KlxKI KI·KI5 K-KI2 KI-III3 111·.2

Kt·1I2 .... Kt·K3 R·Q2 K-52

DEFENSE IIOTVINNIK

IIl~ck '5. KI·.S KtxKt 46. KtPxKI III.QIII 47. K·Q2 K·1(3 48 . R.KKt III·Kt2 .9. K·1l1 R·QR2 SO. K·K'4 P· III4<h 51. K·A' R·III st. III (KtI-QK' R· K' 51. a (K t l- KI$ R· I( 54. P-R3 R(K)'Qa 55. RxRP RxRch S6. KxR R.QR2 57. K·Kt4 " ·Kf4 51. RPxP P .R5 5'. P-R. P· R' 60.. I(. R3 p ·a7 61 . R-Kt 111· 111 62. P. K" R·KK! 63. III·KIII axp 64. IIIxP 111·1(16 65. 1II·1II,(h K.Ql 66. 1II·1II7ch K·II 67. P·K6 RxPc" 6.. K·KI2 It .K6 69. P.K7 K.o2 10. p ·QI(Q )c h KxQ ". RxP K·Q 72. P.RS III·K7ch 73. I(. KI) R·KI 74. K·1I2 1II ·1(7ch 75 . K·II) R.Q a7 76. A·KI' K·1I2 77. P· III' R·III' 11. K-KI2 R· lt5 ". I(·KI3 R· IIII II'. R·Kl7ch K-8 81. R·K16 K·IIl n. R· Kt7ch K·!I 13. A.oIII7 R' Ktkh 84. 1(·.3 111.0111' 15. III ·Rkh K·B2 16. K·Ktl R-K"c" 17. 1( . • ) R-QRI U. K·Ktl III·KtSch

It. K.R2 to. p ·R7 fl . K.Kt, H . R·K III tl . K· R4 ... RxP n. R. 56 96. P. BS 97. K.Kt4 n . K·1I3 " . K·Q2-100. K.K) 111 . R .• 7ch 102. K·K2 lG3. K·Ql 11)4. K-Q2 105. K·K2

R.I(" A·R4<h

K_K I2 R·KI4ch .,.

A·KtI K_Ktl

A·Rlch R.Klkh R.llkh

III-III K·.2 ... R·1I5

R·8kh ••• 111·115

1136. K.K3 lG7. A· llk h 108. 111 ·116 109. 1t ·87(h llG. K·K2 111. K-Q3 112. K· 82 113. P·B' " •• a·llkh lIS. K·Ql n,. I(·K2 117. I( ·K1 nl. R·.7ch lit. K·Q2 120. K·a2 121. R.8kh Drawn

TWENTY·FIRST GAME KING 'S INDIAN DEFENSE

BOTVt NNIK White

I . P·Q4 2. P·QB. 3. KI ·QB3 • • P-K' 5. P ·B3 ,. II·K3 7. KKI·Kl I . P-QS t . Q·Q2 10. Cu"es 11 . K·K! 12. P x P 11. KI. KI3 14. II ·Q3 15 . .. xK' U . B.R, 17. P·KKl4

Kt·K83 P·KKtl

!I·Kt2 p .Q'

QKI·Q2 p _l(.

Cnfl •• Kt·R' P·KIII. P.oR3

QKI·83 ... . ·K

KtxKt p •••

Q.Ktl P·Kf4

II. IIx. It. R.R, 2G . • ·112 21. QR·R 22. QxQ,h 23. 11.· 111' 'l4. "xP U . R· KI6ch 2'. R·K. 27. R·Kt7(h 21. KI·K. n. KIxPc h 30. RxR(h 31. KlxP n . R·.' 33. ".Qkh

Jacobs Wins third San Bernardino

.... ... ' I( .Bl ... 111·115

R' II'ch R·K6 R·K5 K·1I2

K· I(12 111·115 . ·11' .., III-II' ... K •• 2

TAL III.ck ..a

KIPxP P· A3

Q.Kt.

••• Px' ••• I(·B2 I(·K2 K·'

Kt.Q2 ... Ktxlll .... K· B2

lIIeslgns

With a halC·poinl advantage in tie­breaking points, Robert Jacobs of Man· halUn Beach, Calif., edged out Southern california High School Champ Walt Cun­ningham. of Arcadia. for the Third San Bernardino Open first place honors, both scoring 5-1-

An outstanding perfc. rmance was turned in by J . C. Scheuerman of Clare· mont, Calirornia . An A·rated player, he finished in thil'd place scor ing wins over two experts and one master with a draw against another expert. He lost only to last year's champion Leslie Simon of Los Angeles, California.

Tied with Scheuerman at 4"'" points were in order of tie·breaking points, Simon, Sven Almgren of Los Angeles, and Irving Rivise of Los Angeles. Fol­lowing close on their heels at 4 points were: Ronald Gross of Compton, Wayne Turman of Riverside. Zoltan Kocsis of San Diego, David Gibson of Barstow and Rod Freeman of San Diego. Turman un· defeated with two wins and four draws, took highest unrated player prize. Gib· son was highest B player. Tim Delaney or San Bernardino, with a 3-3 score, was the highest San Bernadino Club member.

I The Six-round Swiss held at Norton Air Foree Base Ubrary, San Bernardino, California, on May 6 and 7, with forty. two entrants, was one of the 'strDngest held ill this area. Tournament Director was Steve Skrypzak, of Beaumont, Cali­fornia. Eleven new memberships to the USCF were acquired.

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Marshall Championship To Weinstein

U. S. :\Iaster Raymond \ Veinstein keeps adding titles to his name by hi s truly outstanding play. There is no question that he is now one of th e leading American Ylasters. (For a biographical coverage see Page 149 fo r Charles Henin's column YOUNG AMERICAN MASTERS).

Scoring 10-2 in the always powerful Marshall Chess Club Ch,unpi ollship, Weinstein lost only ODe game, drew two and won nine. Close at his heels was Sidney Bernstein, a fonner champion, with 91h -2lh. Two very youthful con­tenders, Donato Rivera and Bernard Zuckerman, both under 21 years of age, produced scores of 9-3. Masters Charles Henin and AUgllst R,mkis tied for 5th and 6th place with scores of 772-4.1f~ . The tonrnament was directed by :Mark Peckar. Following are two interesting games;

FRENCH DEFENSE S. Bernstein M. Valvo

Wh ite Black 1. P·M P·K3 14. PxP P.P 2. p ... P·Q4 15. N·R2 0·0·0 3. N..QB3 B·NS 16. N·N4 N·B4 4. P·KS P.QB4 17. N·B6 N/ 3xQP 5. P·QR3 BxNch 18. PxN N. P

•• P •• N·K2 19. K..Ql N·B6 7. P·KR4 Q·R4 20. 8·B4 P·B6

•• B·Q2 Q·RS 21. Q·N4 p·QS 9. N·83 QN·B3 22. QxQ •• Q 10. Q·Nl P·BS 23. B·Q3 B.B3 11. P·RS P·KR3 24. R·R3 KR·Nl 12. P·N4 P·QN3 25. NxR R.N 13. P·NS B·Q2 , 26. R·N3 Resigns

MORGAN AGAIN! Arizona State Champion Charles Mor·

gan won first prize in the third annual Phoenix (Arizona) Open, with 5-1, includ· ing draws with Walter Dorne of Albu· querque, N. M. and Valentin Tirman of Phoenix. Morgan tied for first place in the 1960 Open with James Smith and Tibor Weinberger but lost out on t ie· breaking points to Smith. Tied with Morgan, but taking second prize on tie· breaking points was Charles Sponagle of Denver, Colorado. Sponagle also went without a loss but drew with Hector Fabela o.f El :?aso, Texas and New Mex· ico Champion Max Burkett of Albuquer· que.

Tied for third place was Fabela, J ames Christman of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Dorne; they finis hed in this order on Sonnen born-Berger points. All had 4% ·Ph.

David Gollub and Mabel Burlingame, both of Phoenix, successfully retained their titles of J unior Champion and Woman's Champion, respectively.

Dan Gollub, David's twin brother , won the Class B prize wi th Richard Whitte­more of Coronado, Calif. second.

Joe Harriot was declared Class C Champion with Howard Rosenbaum, both of Phoenix, being second.

David Murray was f irst Unrated player followed by Ken Schachter of Phoenix.

William Fox was Tournament Director of the 34 player event. Five Western states were represented in the tourna­ment.

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DUTCH DEFENSE C. He-nin R. A. Weinstein

White Bhlck 1. P·Q4 P-KB4 22. P·R3 ... 2. P·KN3 N-KB3 23. QxB N-B3 3. B·N2 P·KN3 24. Q-Q4 N.N 4. N·KB3 B-N2 25. BxN Q-N4ch 5. 0·0 O.() 26. K·Rl BxBch

•• P-N3 P-Q3 27. QxB Q-K4 7. B·N2 P·B3 28. QxQ P.Q •• QN-Q2 N·R3 29. PoNS KR·Bl 9. P-B4 P·84 30. R-Bl QRxP 10. P-QR3 B·Q2 31 . P-B5 R-R7 11. N-NS R-N1 32. B·N4 QRxP 12. PxP N.P 33. K-N2 R·N7 13. P·QN4 N-RS 34. B·83 QRxP 14. B·Q4 P·K4 35. BxP R/ 1xP 15. BxRP R·R1 3 •• R .. R. R 16. B·K3 P-BS 37. BxP P-QN4 17. PxP N·B6 38. B-Q6 R-Q4 18. Q-K1 N·NS 39. B·N4 R·QS 19. N/ 2·K4 P. P 40. B-B5 R-QBS 20. B·Q2 N.N 41 . 8·Q6 PoNS 21. NxN QB·B3 Resigns

IMPROVEMENT A rating improvement tournament

sponsored by the Phoenix Chess Club open to USCF players with a 1700 rat­ing or below 'or t:nrated players was a big success with eighteen players turn· ing out for the f01: r , ;Jund event, in­cluding seven new USCF members. Lon­nie Trowbridge won first prize with 3% ·%, drawing with James E. Smith, Jr. Tied with Trowbridge on game points, but second on SoB point s was Henry Gazin. Gazin drew with W. B. Hopkins. Frank Olson of San Manuel was third with 3-1, losing to Bob Tennen. Miss Shirley Palchik led the event for threc rounds until a last round loss to Trow­bridge relegatld her t o fourth place. Tied for fifth and sixth place were Elmer Burlingame and W. B. Hopkins with 2% -1% with Burlingame finishing ahead on SoB points.

A feature of the tournament was the participation of two invalids: Eugene En­gelhar d, a paraplegic, and J immy Aden, Jr., an iron lung polio victim. Their games were played at their homes un­der the direction of a tournament deputy.

Tournament dir ector was William F ox.

Mem'bership Gains Newall-time highs in USCF member­

ship were registered at the end of March, af ter one of the largest quarterly gains on record. Tolal membership stood a t 5,132, more than 20% over the total a year ago. Of the 12-month gain, almost half was registered in the past three months. Growth was shown in every Re· gion, and in almost every state, many

of which showed sensational figures. New York state pushed up to 659,

only 7 behind the 666 hit by California . Never has this exciting first-place race been so close.

In the six·state argument for third place, Pennsylvania pulled into a com­mandIng lead with a terrific spurt to 315, followed by New Jersey at 286, Ohio 264, Ill inois 256, Texas 227, and Michigan 212.

Alaska, which had only one member at the start of Operation 1.1, jumped fr om B a year ago to 34 currently. Other sensational jumps were Arizona, from 35 to 56, Nevada 11 to 33, Utah 11 to 30, Colorado 51 to 72, Maryland 73 to 126, Louisiana 46 to 76, New · Mexico 34 to 61, Tennessee 26 to 62, and even Jerry Spann's Oklahoma finally made target going from 37 to 56.

The complete figures for the quarter which saw both the beginning of the new Chess Life format ·and the beginning of OPERATION M, Chairmanned by Lina Grumette of all-timc champion Califor­nia, follow:

USCF Membership as of March 30

1960 1961 1960 1961 REGION I REGION VI

MASS. . .... , .. 149 164 CONN. . ....... 98 103 R. I . .. .... ..... . 15 11 N. H • .... ...... 11 IS MAI NE ........ 7 11 VT. " ...... , ..... 1 3

- -281 318

REGION \I N. Y . .... ...... 512. 659 N. J . ............ 241 286

- -753 945

REGION 11\ PE NN . ....... . 227 315 MD. . .. .... ....... 73 126 VA . ... ...... ..... 89 94 D. CO il. •.... .. 47 71 W . VA . ...... 27 37 DEL . .... ..... .. . 7 6 -

470 648 REGION IV

FLA . ...... ...... 105 116 TENN .... ..... 26 62 N. CAR . ...... 49 55 ALA ............ , 33 47 MISS. . .. ... ... . 43 43 s. CA R . ...... 30 35 GA. . .... ...... .. . 16 24 KY. ..." ......... 11 11 -

333 4(13 REGION V

OHIO ......... ... 108 264 MICH. .. .. .. .. 108 264 M1 CH. . .. ... .. 197 112 IND . ....... ... .. 80 72 -

485 548

ILL. • .... .. ..... 176 254 WIS . ............ 113 12.0 MINN. . ....... 90 115 NEBR . ..... ... 40 56 IOWA .......... 31 42 MONT . .... .. . , 17 12 S. o . ....... ..... 3 10 N. D . ...... ... . 8 7 WYO. .......... 3 5

481 623

REGION VII . TE XAS .. .... 261 227 MO. . ... ... ....... 73 93 LA. .. ... .. ...... . 46 76 COLO. . ....... 51 72 N. ME X • .... 34 61 OKLA . ...... .. 37 56 KANS. . .... ... 32 31 A RK ............. 25 21 -

559 637

REGION VIII CA LIF. • ... .. 533 ... ARIZ. .. ... ..... 35 " WAS H. . ..... .. 41 .. ALASKA .... • " NEVADA . . " " UTAH ........ n " OREGON .... " " IDAHO ...... " " HAWAII .... , ,

--682 907

FOREIGN .. 84 102 - -4118 5132

CHESS LIFE

Pictured ilbove is U.S. Open Chilmpion, Robert Byrne plilying ilt Mar Del PlilfiI, Arg. ntlnil lut month. After plilcing s.cond in a reliltive ly strong fi.ld , he went on to Santil Fe, where he took fint-ah.ad of three Grand maste rs­Fil ip, Matilnovic and Rossetto. Byrne' , , cor. of 61h.·1h. was the highest .v.r scored in that Interndionil l Tournament-a full two points ahead of 5Icond place.

M., Del Plat. I 2 3 • I. Naidorf . ............................. x 'h 'h I 2. Byrne ................... ............. 'h. • , 'h 3. D,. Filip .......................... 'h. • • 'h

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George Washington UniverSity recent· ly won the District of Columbia, Team Championship "Rated section" but not until they drew five games and won one from the Ar lington Chess Club in a playoff-match resulting from tied match scores. The Silver Spr ing Chess Club took {irst in the Unrated section and as wc go to press a three match series is being played by the5e two teams.

Indiv idual prizes in the team tourna· ment were won by Eliot Hearst of Ar­lington, and Jurgis Blekaiti5 of the Health. Education and Wclfare Team. Will iam Plampin directed the matches which are annually sponsored by the D.C. Chess League.

MAY, 1961

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Don't Be "Chicken" Go To U. S. Experts

Florida chess players are reported hilariously exuberant over their chances to monopolize most of the top honors in the sensational new U. S. Experts Cham­pionship, July 6-7-8, at the diLido Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla.

They figu re that mosl players will be hesitant, out of "fear of the Florida Power," even to travel for a glorious oceanfront luxury vacation at modest prices. Floridians believe they'li scare away all the chickens, and massacre the little lambs and fi sh. The raucous view was expressed most fo~erully in their latest state publication, both in words and in a front page cartoon.

However, a careful look at tho:! USCF

ratings may not substantiate such an optimistic view, since only lour Flori­dians were listed in the 2100's in Decem· ber, and only one 2104 (who can't at­tend) was added in April. Moreover, the state secretary reports that their top man is overseas and can't return, the next hasn't played in a tournament since 1957, the third maintains a Florida mailing address but hasn't played here since 1959, and the other isn't expected, since Miami Beach has been very unlucky for him in the past. Thus, it may be that Florida may not be representcd by a player with a USCF rating of 2100 or higher. II so, it is doubtful that other states should "fear the Florida Power."

Therefore, it might be a good idea for players from other states to organize their leading five or six experts and go down to Miami Beach for the fun and Irolie of a financially opulent tourney combined with a lUXUry vacation, garner the lush team and individual awards; then stop oU on the way home at Ra· leigh, N. C., and pick up more awards at the U. S. Team Championship there, July 14-15-16.

Whatever the view, it wouldn't do to let those Floridians laugh raucously at the rest of the country for being too chicken to compete against thcm!

The U. S. Experts is open to all play­ers except those rated master in either the December or April lists; or, if not listed then, the last time rated. Big awards are pledged to players in each 100 point rating group. Thus, non-ex· perts also are encouraged to attend and gain rating points and prizes as well .

WHEEl Of fORTUNE The 1961 Nevada State Open Chess

Championship was conducted at the Mapes Hotel in Reno recently and 30 players competcd. George Kirby of Reno and Harold Edelstein of San Carlos, California tied for first with scores of 6-1 in the 7 round Swiss .

Gaston Chappuis, a well known play· cr from Salt Lake City, took clear third with a score of 5·2. Donald Benge or Burbank, Cali!. , Ken Jones Crom Reno and Dr. A. Janushkowsky of Sacramento all scored 4'h ·2* and took the 4th, 5th and 6th place awards respectively after ties had been broken.

Though he didn't win an award, Rob­ert Karg, should have received a special trophy for setting an cndurance record. An entertainer with a group called the "Rounders," Karg played music every evening until 4:30 A.M. at the Riverside Hotel and was up pushing Pawns the next day at 9 A.M. sharp!

C. C. McDaniel was the Top B player in the tournament and received a beau­tiful trophy for his efforts as did Norma Jean Halstead for her $Core as Top Woman player and Raymond A. Smith for producing Ihe best played game. Sponsored by Ihe Reno Chess Club, the event was directed by Harold Lund­strom, noted chess columnist of the DESERET NEWS of Salt Lake City.

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by U. S. Master ELIOT HEARST

THE "BOBBY FISCHER" OF ROUMANIA am: (If the foreign favorites of the U.S. Student Team

in Leningrad last summer \Va~ a shy, 15,ycJ.r-old Rou­manian schoolboy, Florin Chcorghiu, who looked even younger than he actually was. Early in the tournament he lost a jl('art-hrcakcr to Amurk.1Il Anthony Saidy; it

queen ahend and having played a fine game up to th:lt point the Houmanian youngster permitted Said y ,to queen a p<lwn in what was surely one of the most astounding time-pressure swindles in chess tournament history. For those of you who lose heart whenever YOli find yourself a queeIl behind here is the score of that t itanic struggle;

SAIDY.GHEORGHIU (King's Indion Defense). 1. p.Q4, N·KB3; 2. P-QB4, P·KN3; 3. N.QB3, 8-N2; 4. P·K4, P-03; s . B·K2, 0 -0 ; 6. N-B3, P·K4; 7. p·QS, QN.Q2; 8. 8 ·NS, p. KR3; 9. 8 ·R4, P·KN4; 10. B·N3, N·R4; 11 . KN-Q2, N·BS; 12. O.(), N.B4; 13. N·N3, P·N3; 14. R·KI , NxBch; IS. QxN , P-B4; 16. PxP, BxP; 17. NxN, NPxN; 18. QR-QBI , Q·B3; 19. N-K4, Q-N3; 20. P_KR3, QR·NI; 21. p.N3, R_B2; 22. R-NI , P-KR4; 23. P-K R4, PxP; 24. BxRP, B-R3; 2S. P·B3, QR·KBI ; 26. K·RI, R-N2; 27. P-N3, B-Bl ; 28. P-QN4, R(2)_B2; 29. PxP, RxP; 30. R·N8, Q-NS; 31. RxB, QxR; 32. K-N2, Q-B4; 33. PxP, R-K6; 34. Q:xR, B:xQ; 3S. RxB, Q-B8ch; 36. K_R2, R-B7ch; 37. N:xR, Q:xNch ; 38. K-R3, Q:xl/: ; 39. P·Q7, Q-KB6; 40. P.Q8(Qjch, K·R2; 41. Q-K7ch, K·fI.1l ; 42. Q·K6ch, K·R2; 43. Q-K7ch, Resigns.

Even !though the Americans were happy to snatch victory fro m ddeat in this game, none of the U.S. l>iayers (.-ould help feeling some sympathy for the nnfortunate victim of this catastroph e. The Houmalliall seemed to sense these mixed emotions over the victory and from then on he would often exchange Wistful head-shakes and mock cl(pressions of grief whenever he met a member of the U.S. team. Though he spoke no English and the Americans no Hou manian, he was often a welcome addi­tion to the post-m0l1em sessions of American players and was also n tricky playmaker and scorer in an American­monopolized basketba ll game arrang(.'(l on an outdoor excursion during the tournament. Ghcorghiu played ex­cellent chess after his disastrous loss .to Sa idy and was umlcfeated thereafte r in the tOUl'llament.

Jt W<lS with a great deal of pleasure, therdore, that we noticed the upset victory of Gheorghiu in the recent Boum,mian C hampionship, ahead of numerous Rouman­ian musters and intcrnational masters. Chcorghiu, to­gether with J7-ye,u -old Hort of Czechoslovakia and our own Bobby Fisher, certainly constitute a trio of interna­tional masters the youth of which would be hard to match at ,lily time in chess history. One of Cheorghiu's most ex­citing vk10ries in t he Roumanhm tournilmen t Follows:

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GtUTESCU-GHEORGHIU (Sicilian Defense)' 1. P­K4, P.QB4; 2. N-KBJ, P-Q3; 3. P-Q4, PxP; 4. NxP, N·KB3; S. N.QB3, P·QR3; 6. B-KNS, P-K3; 7. B·QB4, B-K2; 8. Q·K2, P_N4; 9. B·N3, 0 -0 ; 10.0·0, P·NS; 11 . N·R4, B·N2; 12. P·K B3, N·B3;

13. B-KJ, P-Q4; 14. KR·QI , NxN ; IS. BxN, Q-R4; 16. N·N6, PxP; 17. NxR, Q.R4; 18. Q·B2, PxP; 19_ PxP, BxP; 20_ R·Q3, BxN; 21. R·N3, P·K4; 22. Q-K3, N·KS; 23_ B-N6, NxR; 24. QxN, B·RS; 2S. Q-RJ, B-B7ch; 26. Resigns_

CAISSAN COMMENTS Bobot C hessplayers: "The grandmasters who surround me nrc no longer chessplaycrs b ut robots. They take ten or twen ty hours to prepare themselves for each game in a tonrney; large groups of friends, sf."(.'(mds, and :lImlysts help this one single man to win one single game. This i .. 1I0t chess! 1 imagine chess to he different: chess is a gmll(~ in which two players t:mnpcte without preparation and analysis, and measure their ahilities directly across the chessboard. IVly second, ~I ur i c, can affirm that r havc never prepared specifically for any gume and only too of tell did I not know or evcn want to know who would h{~ my next opponent. Equipped with this unique a ttitude, 1 inevitably lost:· (Pal llcnko, quoted from the Ljubliau<I "DELO," :It the (.'Onciusion of tIl{' Challengers' Tourney J ~)59).

GRANDMASTER OPINIONS 1) "Chess is a gamc of logic and logic is not a femi ­

Iline thing:' 2) "Englishmen lJave knowledge and they have in­

tdligcncc. But they do not have endurance. You must have endurance in ehcss." (Svetozar Gligorich, at I-last­ings JOOO).

CHESS NOTES AND EQUATIONS "T o most people the ontstanding fact about chess

i" .the quaint notion that it r<..'qui res superior men tal pow­e.rs-in particular a mathematical mind. Actually, there 1Il e some mathematical aspects of ehess but they have no hearing 0 11 the game, which is what really counts. At ti mes the mathematical attitll<1c call be more of n handi­cap than a help. In much the same way cacophonous tomes have been writt<..'ll on the physics of music, wh ich have not hing to do with the :lrt of t he perfonncr" (Reu­hl'n Fine, writing on "Chess and r>. lusic," 1943).

PETROSIAN THE DEVIL ~Sometimes PetrosiUII is a(.'Cusoo of playing a draw­

ish-type game, but such accusations arc altogether un­wllrra ntt'd. How can anyone who r(' lics on draws become

CHESS LIFE

Soviet duunpion twice and several ;times win the privi­lege of playing in the challengers' tournament? Such vic­tories can be scored only by a sllpercxpert, a man of out­standing talent, with the perceptivity of the "devil." (Salo Flohr, who is one of the most "drawish" grandmasters in chess history, in "!\'Ioscow-Xews," 1961). MEN YS. MACHINES

"'Chess-playing machines will be able to compete successfully against masters because they will have a tre­mendous m emory as well as limitless endurance and will be indifferent to noise in the playing hall and to chess reporters.

All this is not fantasy. In time, when machines will acquire grandmaster titles at FIDE Congresses it will be necessary to hold ;two world chess championships- one for humans and one for machines. Of course, in the latter case the contest will not be between the machines but between the creators and programmers of such." (M. M. Botvinnik, in the Latvian newspaper "CU,A,'" 1960).

ALCOHOL and CHESS "There are chcss players who drink before ami dur­

ing the game. This is quite a normal procedure. Alcohol has the power of stimulating one's imagination and in­ventive capacities. It may eliminate inhibitions whieh should not exist. On the other hand, it also eliminates inhibitions which should be there, and in the long run it weakens one's resistance. Nonetheless, players have often attained brilliant wins under the influence of alco­hol. Chess history can produce a sufficient number of instances to substantiate this statement.

Alekhine took alcohol in our first match game, pre­sumably before the 18th game, certainly before the 21st and 30th games. Personally, I do not think that the 21st game was any worse than any other game in the match, and J am quite sure that in general the number of games Alekhine WOn with the aid of alcohol is at least as great as the number he Jost because of alcohol." (Dr. M. Euwc, in "Canad ian C hess Chat")

Operation MM= More Members, That's All

The responSe to our new recruiting program ACT is, as they say in French, "tres terrilic."

The increased interest in organized chess indicates that a sincere and energetic recruiting effort such as that ex· pended by our tireless rgional vice·presidents, is bound to bring in MM- more members, that is.

A MEMBERSHIP GAIN OF 442 new membcrs is shown during the period from Dec. 5, 1960 to March 30, 1961.

After a certain amount of research, study of statistical data, and mathematical calculations, like one and one makes two, we arrived at some quota figures for 1961 recruiting, which were forthwith dispatched to our hardworking vice· presidents. The 1961 member-recruiting·quota for our eight regions came to 1970; but our alert x-president, Jerry Spann immediately spotted the bug in this quota. In effect, he said-What do you mean, 1970? It's 1961, isn't it? For a catchy slogan, change the quota to--1961 in 1961!!!

Great, Jerry-and that's why we are going to give the boys a break and make it 1961 instead of 1970.

1961 MORE MEMBERS IN 1961 Below, regional membership-quotas for 1961, region memo

bership totals on Dec. 5, 1960 and March 30, 1961, and reo gional vice·presidents.

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USCF USCF M,mb,nhlp Mtmbe .. hlp Dec. S. 1960 Ml'. 30. 1961.

317 318 805 945 559 648 362 403

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125 310 265 195 195 260 280 331

4690 5132 1961

Reg. V.P.

H. C. Newberry Allen Kaufman J. D. Matheson Lanneau Foster Jack O'Keefe Eva Aronson C. Harold Bone Henry Gross

1961 NEW MEMBERS IN 1961 FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 6651 MEMBERS

From our ACT files: The Southern Calif. High School League tournament for

boys and girls under 18, brought in 27 members to the feder­ation. The tournament was a Swiss system, six rounds, 30· moves·per·hour, played at the Herman Steiner Chess Club in Los Angeles. Interesting side·light; conpietely coincidcntal pairing, 1st round-Rains versus Showers. (Rains won.)

From Donald Define, Florissant, Mo.: " ... six new memo bers in Missouri this month, one renewal ... Your mailing (ACT letters) went out to the following live club presi-dents . . ." .

MAY, 1961

From K. R. Jones, Reno, Nevadl: "Am enclosing list of new memberships we have secured (nine members). As you know, the field 01 chess players is limited along with the small population in Nevada ... " (Ed. Note:-As of April 24, this gives Nevada a total of 42 members, a gain of 551h % over Dec. 5, 1960. Good work, K. R. Jones.)

Ralph Hagedorn, Sun Valley, Calif .• writes: ..... please enroll the following as members of USCF. They are playing in Expert Candidate Tournament sponsored by S. C. Chess Lcague ... " (7 members)

Frink Pye, Downey, Calif.: " ... best wishes for ACT . .. Ten new members from Downey seclion."

Bernlrd O.k, City Terrace Chess Club, L. A.: " ... five new mcmbers recently ... Also, starting Novice tournament May 19, for players with rating of 1700, or under, or no rating . .. Prizes will be membership to the USCF ... Good luck with ACT."

From George S. Barnes, Minneapolis: " . .. thank you for your recent ACT mailings . . . I have turne(l. them over to our chess club president and program director . . . Minne· sota passed its 1961 quota with 43 new memberships ... "

Arthur G.mlln of LIS Vegas Chess Club, writes: "This is to advise you of the tournaments planned by the Las Vegas Chess Club for the balance of 1961 ... Las Vegas Summer Tournament, June 8th, and Las Vegas City-Wide Tournament, Oct. 18 .. . Both are open to all players who are members or will become members of both the L. V. Chess Club and the USCF ... "

V. P. Jlck Mltheson, Arlington, Virginia, writes: " ... pondering the matter of USCF membership, I think we should set our sights higher than any I have heard mentioned so far .. . ONE MEMBER PER 10,000 (U: S. pop. 179,323,175) ... is not unreasonable ... there will still be 18 countries with better ratios ... "

V.P. C. Harold Bone, Baytown, TeXIS, outlines a very fine plan lor USCF growth and strength, via instructive material supplied in chess sets. (More about this next time.) He also says; . .. "the ACT material is being sent to the presidents of the Texas and Louisiana State Associations .. . The Hous­ton Chess Club is playing its city championship in 2 stages-­A Swiss Qualifying Tourney, April 22-23, and a round·robin finals in June ... Carry on!"

Note to Jon Calderon: Operation MM totals for March 30 show-

New York---659 California-666

Good! You're catching up. Lina Grumette

General Chairman of the Membership Committee

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(ross (0 ntr, FINAL RESULTS OF AMERICA'S

LEADING TOURNAMENTS Maryland Open-April. 1961 ,

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Cleveland Amory, Look What You've Done!

In the biographical sketch of myself that our promo­tion department sends out to groups that have been fool­ish enough to invite me to lecture, the game of chess is given as one of my "hobbies."

This is an error, Chess is no.t, and can never be, a hobby. It is a disease or nothing. It is lin obsession, an affliction, an addiction. But it is not a hobby.

"Every chess player," an ironic fri end of mine s."l.id rt:(:ently, "shOuld have a hobby." nlis was a neat epigram. Those who are serious about the game soon hecome as single-minded as alcoholics: wife, family, job and other interests all become submerged in the chessboard.

o o • I have largely given up playing the game because of

it.~ seductive powers. I used to urge others to take i t up, but no longer. The peril is too great. Some .~erious drink­ers avoid bt..'<:oming alcoholics, but no serious chess play­ers ever avoid becoming chess nuts. \ Vhat we need is a secret organization called "Checkmates AnonymolLs."

Not long ago, Cleveland Amory came to Chicago for a few days of the most strenuous activity. His book, ~Who

Killed Society?" is high on the best·seller list; his anthol­ogy, "Vanity Fair," is crowding the leaders.

During his brief visit here, Amory wa.~ sched111ed for several li terary luncheons, receptions, dinners, radio and TV interviews, llnd the whole depressing gamut of mod-

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ern publici ty. Every hour of his time was rigidly sched­uled.

Yet-Owing to the evil machinntions of m y publisher - Amory spent five hours I1 t my house, involved in two ferocious games of chess with me. .

I-I e ignored phone calls- including one piteous e'111 from his wife aWlliting his retun\ at their hotel- curses, th reats, promises, and cold looks from our other guests who wefC waiting to go out for d inner with us.

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Like the lush who can't stop with the conventional tv-1O bcfore a meal. he would have stayed all night locked in mortal combat over .the chessboard. We finally had to land him into the car and drive ltim down to the TV st":l ti on for his appearance on a panel show. H e cried like a baby.

I am doing penance in thls piece, for in th e past, I have urged the game of chess upon strangers to it, and I sti ll have a nostalgic fondness for it. But 1 rarely play i ~ any more; the g.lme calls fOf a strong will and a steady hand.

It is not for weakli ngs like Amory and mysel f. And it is not a hobby, unless you look lipan opium-smoking as a harmless diversion . I thought T had kicked the habit, until Amory pulled me back into the pit. Co pyright 1961 hy General Features Corp. Reprinted th rough the courtesy of General Feu/.llres.

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Washington, D. c. JULY 1-2-3-4 8 Round Swiss I u.s. CHESS FEDERATION

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CAS PRIZES-MAY, 19S1 141

• • • • S OF MASTER PLAY

BY I G LOM

"ONCE AGAIN THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP"

"Once again The World's Championship" But who's to be the champion?

When Botvinnik and Tal met last March, it was for the first time. The general consensus of opinion, 1Il that battle of youth versus the 'aged', was that youth would conquer; it did.

That victory was by no means as conclusive as it appeared. True that Tal scored six wins as against Botvinnik's meager two, but the games themselves indicated that the match was not at all one-sided. Fatigue, brought on by ill­ness, caused Botvinnik :to lose his once flawless technique. A number of won games were tossed away.

Now a new match, Botvinnik's revenge, is under way. There is much conjecture, most in favor of Tal, regarding this match. Is Botvinnik getting too old?

Born in 1911, Botvinnik will be fifty on August 17th; Tal is twenty-four. Should this difference in age make the difference? Hardly! Health notwithstanding, there arc many men who participate in numcrolls strenuous activ­ities, and quite successfully, I might add. Tomapapa, for example, is still winning professional bowling tourna­ments. He is in his mid sixties!

llerhaps Botvinnik has discouraged himself. In his book '100 Selected Games' he says about Alekhine, " ... I must again emphasize that during the last period of his career his imaginative powers declined." Stuely Botvinnik must be considered to he in that 'last period' of his own Chess career, but what possible reason should cause his decline. At the moment, I doubt if there is any reason, for he is not on the downgrade, as so many experts think. As a matter of fact, he has already downed Tal the terrible in the first game of their return match by convincingly outplaying him in the end game. The game is not so interesting from thc tactical standpoint, as it is instructivc from the positional point of view.

RAGOSIN DEFENSE (by transposition)

M. Botvinnik White

1. P-QB4 N·KB3 2. N-QB3 P-K3 3. p.Q4 B-NS 4. P-K3 0-0 5. B-Q3 ........

M, Tal Black

Here Botvinnik deviates from his favor­ite KN-K2. Since he has had great suc­cess with that continuation, he must have suspected Tal of having something special prepared. For phychological con· siderations it is often necessary to get off the beaten path.

5. . ...... . 6. P-QR3 7. BxP 8. N·B3

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B-Q3 N-B3

Black has successfully transposed into the Ragosin Defense with a tempo gain, White's 6. P-QR3. Usually White has castled by this time.

9. N-QNS P-K4 The recommended course is 9. .. ...... , B-K2, 10. 0·0, P-QR3; 11. N-B3, B-Q3; 12. P-K4, P·K4; 13. P·Q5, N·K2 with equality. The text favors White slightly.

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Position after 9 . ........ , P-K4

10. NxB .. ...... Much more to White's advantage is 10. PxP, NxP; 11. NxB, QxN; 12. QxQ, PxQ; 13. B-K2, where White's two bishops of­fer a strong initiative, especially in view of Black's weak queen pawn.

10. ........ QxN 11. PxP QxQch 12. KxQ N_KNS 13. K-K2 QNxP 14. B-QS ....... .

Necessary, for if B-R2 then B-B4 gives Black a good game.

14. ........ P·B3 15. B·K4 B·K3!

15 ......... , P-QN3 only leads to an even game, Le.; 16. NxN, NxN; 17. P-B4, B-R3; 18. K-B2, B-Q6.

16. N-Q2 17. P-R3 18. 8·B2

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R-Q2?

Position after 18 ......... , R.Q2?

It seems strange that such an innocent looking move should actually lose the game, but the tremendous loss of time in­volved allows White the effective and devastating use of his two bishops. Correct was 18 ......... , P·B4; which main-

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tains a slight advantage in . view of his queen side majority and better develop­ment.

19. P·QN3 KR·Q1 20. R·Q1 N·Q6?

Overlooking the fact that his rook will be in jeopardy on Q6. N-Q4 was better.

21. BxN RxB 22. B_N2 R(6)-Q2

The threat was B-Q4. 23. BxN PxB 24. P-QN4 B·B4 25. N·N3 B-Q6ch 26. K-K1 P_N3 27. QR-B1 ..... .. .

Now Black cannot avoid a bishop versus knight end game, which, in view of his multiple pawn weaknesses, is hopeless.

27. ........ B·KS 28. P-B3 RxRch 29. RxR RxRch 30. KxR B-Q4

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31. N-Q4 32. PxP 33. N-NS

P·QB4 PxP

P·QR3 As will be seen, Black cannot possibly defend aU his isolani. He must lose at least one pawn, and with it the game.

34. N-B7 B·BS 35_ N·K81 ........

As a squirrel gathers acorns. this knight gathers pawns. Incredible that there is no defense.

35. .. .. .... P·B4 The pawns must roam far from the de­fense and safety of their king.

36. P·KR4 ....... . White can afford to bide his time, since Black has no counter-play.

36. . .... .. . 37. N·Q6 38_ P·N3 39. NxPch 40. P-K4

K-B1 B_B8 K·K2 K-K3 K-K4

26 Years Later Competing in the largest and strong­

est Wisconsin State Championship ever held, AIpad Elo of Milwaukee scored 6-1 to regain the title he had previously held five times and shared three times. His victory in Racine over a field of 86, 10 of them Experts, came 26 years after his first state championship and is cvidence that Elo, like the wine he makes, improves with age.

In winning, Elo defeated Stanley Brown, Sheboygan; Henry Meifert, the defending champion, Milwaukee; Fred Cramer, Milwaukee; and John Oberg, Russell Kime and Kimball Nedved, all of Racine. His only loss was to Charles Weldon, the highest·rated player in the state and a former champion, who fin· ished a surprisingly low 15th. Elo de­feated Nedved, who had led through the fifth and sixth rounds, in the last game when Nedved needed only a draw to assure himself of a share of the title.

The other trophy winners were Ned­ved, a former Dlinois champion, second; Dr. L. C. Young, Madison, third; Richard Kujoth, Milwaukee, fourth; and Frederic Pfister, Milwaukee, fifth. The women's title was again successfully defended by Mrs. Lois Housfeld, Milwaukee, with Mrs. Asta Christiansen, also of Milwau­kee, as runnerup. The j,mior title was won by William Martz, Hartland, with a record of two wins and five draws.

An innovation this year was the cre­ation of 'regional sub·championships. Holders of these additional titles are Elo, Southeastern; Dr. Young, Southwestern; Anthony Kasenga, Sheboygan, Northeast­ern; and Peter Muto, River Falls, North­western regional champion .

Not only was the field the largest ever assembled but the contestants all came prepared to play chess for there were no withdrawals, no forfeits ·and no ad­judications during the entire seven­round event. The tournament chairman was RUSSell Kime, president of the spon· soring Wisconsin Chess Association. The tournament director was Miss Pearle Mann of MilwaUkee.

Final Position

Here the game was adjourned, but Tal, realizing the hopelessness of the situa­tion, resigned without resuming play.

Up until now I have only commented on the 'age factor' in Chess but not on the 'youth factor'. Tal's youthful resiliency has caused him to bounce back and win the second game. At this writing the match stands one all. The question still remains: who's to be the champion?! It's anybody's guess.

BENKO MANHATTAN OIAMPION International Grandmaster Pal Benko

scored 8Y2 -2lh in the recently concluded Manhattan Chess Club Championship and was awarded the coveted title from a field of twelve of the strongest players in the country. Benko lost only one game - to former U.S. Champion Arnold Den­ker. He drew three and won seven. With scores of 8-3, youngster Howard Cohen and former champion George Kramer tied for second place. Three players tied at 6-5; Denker. Abe TUrner and Ervine Farkas. Surprising was the performance of Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier in com­piling an even score of 5lh ·5lh. His loss of four games was unprecedented since he usually places very high in the event -winning it several times in the past. Hans Kmoch, the club secretary, direct­ed the contest.

Trefzer Tops Marylandians

George F. Trefzer of Newport News, Va., topped a record entry of 62 play­ers with a score of 5¥.!-¥.! to take the 1961 Maryland Open held in Baltimore recently and conducted by the Maryland Chess Association. Directors William Koenig and Norman T. Whitaker award· ed prizes to four players with 5-1 scores. They wcre Robert Raven, Oscar Vinje, Glen Hartleb and former U.s. Amateur Champion, Russell Chauvenet. Raven, as the highest ranking state resident, was awarded the state championship title. Mrs. Frank Roberts was named the Maryland Women's Champion. Other tro­phies went to Vinje for Top A Class, Robert Erkes for Top B, Alfred Popoldi for Top C and Norman Antokol for Top unrated.

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THE MASTERS' FORUM •

Top Mascers Annocace Their Own Games

The Most Game I Ever Lost by Edward Lasker

To di spel a possible misin te rpretation of the above heading, let me say right lIway that this is not a game an opponent of mine played so beautifully that 1 was en­raptured into publishing it. It was r who played it beauti­fully. And if there were any justice up above, 1 should have won it, and it would have taken its place with the much publicized male in eight moves [ was lucky enough to give Sir Thomas in u game which I should not have won. Here, I am sur~. we have a case which the great Ossip Bernstein would be eager to add to his examples of what- to hi s audiences' delight- he used to call "the equalizing injustice of chess",

a good many years and , at my age. really had no busi­ness to ent er anyway; but an opportunity to see beautiful d el Vienna again is nothing one would easily p:lSS up, the argument s that chess masters never know when to retire notwithstanding.

J had met my opponen t, Paul Michel of Buenos Aires , in a tournament at Mar del Plata. T did not re­member what openings he had played there, but Czer­niak, another Argentine participant in Vienna, told me that if I played 1. P-Q4, Michel would certainly choose the Tarrasch defense of the Queen's Gambit which he knew forward and backward. I had learned a few things abou t this opening myself in my match for the U.S. cham­pionship with M arsha ll, who had murdered me when I ventured that defense. and so I fe lt quite satisfied at the prospect of facing it. M iche l indeed resorted to it:

This game was played in Vienna, 1951, in the first In te rnational Maste rs' Tournament the Austrians had or­gan ized afte r World War I L I accepted their invitation to participate, a lthough] hadn't p layed serious chess in

Edward Laske r Paul Michel

White Blick

1. p.Q4 p.Q4 2. P·QB4 P·KJ 3. N-QBJ P·QB4 4. PxQP KPxP S. N·B3 N·QB3 6. P-KN3 N-BJ 7. B·N2 B_K2 S. O.() B_K3

Much better is 0 -0 first-not only on general principles, because this is a move that must surely come. while the Bishop may find a square other than Kg more desirable, but also on the basis of exper­ience, which has shown in a number of games with this opening that the King should get away from the centre of the board as early as possible.

9_ PxP ....... . 9. B·NS yields no adva ntage. Black casUes into saIety and answers 10. R-Bl with N-KS!, equaHzing, as did Michel against Najdorf in Mar del Plata 01. BxB, QxB; 12. PxP, KR·Ql ; 13. N·Q4, NxQBP; 14. NxN, PxN; 15. Q.Q4, QR·Bl).

9. ........ a,p 10. B-NS p·QS 11 . a, N 0," 12. N·K4 Q·K2 13. NxB O,N 14. R-Bl Q·NJ 15. N-NS! ........

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Position afte r 15. N-NSI

Now Black cannot castle because ho would lose. a Pawn through 0 -0; 16. Q-B2, P·KN3; 17. BxN, PxB; 18. NxB, PxN; 19. QxEP, etc. or 15 ......... , 0-0-0; 16. NxB, PxN; 17. Q-B2, R·Q3; 18. KR·Ql, KR-QI; 19. QxP, QxP; 20. R-B2 and 21 . Q"P. 15 . ......... B-Q2 does not look very appetiz-ing either. After 16. Q-B2, p.K.R3; 17. Q-K4ch, N-K2; 18. N-B3 Btack will again at least lose a Pawn. Finally, 15 ......... , 8 -B4, the move I played in one of my games against Marshall in this position, permits 16. P-K4!, B-N3 (PXP?; 17. RxB!, PxR; 18. Q-Q6, etc.); 17. P-B4, P·KR3; 18. N-R3, when the Black Bishop remains out of play for the foreseeable future. However, I thought this was Black's best chance to hold out. Michel deliberated for some time and then surprised me with

1S. ........ BxP I was wondering whether in the 28 years that had passed since· my match with Marshall this move had been analyzed to give Black a satisfactory_ nay! Pos­sibly the better game!? I had planned 16. Q-R4, but upon more careful study realized that Black could reply B·N6, when 17. BxN ch, PxB; 18. QxP ch, QxQ; 18. RxQ, 0-0 would give me exactly nothing. Trusting in the validity of gen­eral principles, I kept on searching for a combination which would give that King in the middle of the board his just deserts, and after much analysis which wore me to a frazzle I found it!

16. RxNI PxR 17. Q·R4 B·N6 18. QxP ch K·K2l

He -can't exchange Que.ens, because after 19. BxQ ch, K-K2; 20. BxH. RxE; 21. N-B3, R-Ql ; 22. R-Rl , R-Q2; 23. K·Bl!, his game would suffer from the reo stricted mobility of his Rook which has to guard his two isolated Pawns. The im­mediate threat would he 24. 1t-R3 fol­lowed by R-Q3, as B-BS is not possible on account of 25. N·K5. (23. N·K5 instead of K·BI would be a bad blunder, as after R·B2; 24. RxP?, RxR; 25. N-B6 ch, K-Q3 ; 26. NxR, K-B4 the knight would be lost.) In turn, if I had exchanged Queens on the next move in order to regain the exchange. with BxR, Black would have come out with the better ending, as he would have controlled the only open file that was worth anything, and I would

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have remained with a weak Pawn to worry about. Of course, since I was after His Majesty, I did not want to exchange the Queens anyway:

19. Q.K4ch B·K3 20. Q.KR41

Po.ltlon .ft •• 1D. Q.KR41

The key of the combination. Black's Rook is still attacked, and if he moves It, the discovered check NxB forces the King out into the centre of the board.

20. ........ QR·QI 21. NxBch KxN 22. R·BI!!

Bringing the Rook into play without los· ing a tempo, as Black must guard against the check on 86. Arter Black's reply all is forced.

22 ......... 23. B-R3ch 24. Q.K4ch 25. QxPch 26. Q·Q7ch 27. R·B7

R·Q3 p.B4 K·B2 R·B3 K·N3

R·KNI For some strange reason which seems quite inexplicable to me today, I wasted a half·an·hour and with it the last ounce of mental energy I had left by trying to figure out a forced matinG combina· tion beginning with the obvious move Q·Nkh, instead of saving time and mak· ing that move which was necessary to

prevent Black from opening a hole at R2 in any case. Young reader, when you are 65. my age at the time I played this game. think of the horrible things you will now witness and avoid a similar fate by husbanding your energy!

28. Q.N4ch K.R3 29. p.B4 P·Q6ch

This is the move the analysis of which had worn me oul I had come to tbe conclusion that after I move into the long diagonal he must play his Queen to N4 or R4 to defend the mate threatened on his KN4. Then would come P·85, threatening mate through Q·R4, and since upon check in the diagonal I would interpose my King's Pawn. winning the Queen, his only defense would be P·N4. After that I trusted the precarious posi· tion of Black's Kjng and my phalange. of Pawns to help seal Black's fate and I prayed to Goddess Caissa to lift the fog from my brain. But she would not listen:

Position .Her 29. ___ , P-Q6ch

30. K·Rl??? Q.R4 Suddenly I saw that what I had consld· ered of no particular importance, a prop· er choice betwc.cn the squares Rl and N2. actually meant winning the game or not. My move permitted Black to threat· en perpetual check and thus gain the tempo to stop me from playing P·B5.

Had I gone to N2 with the King, Black would have had no way of preventing that move. As post mortem analysis showed. the reply P·N4 would have led to a beautiful mate in four moves: 32. Q.J\5 ch, KxQ; 33. RxPch. R·B3; 34. P·N4ch. K·R5; 35. RxR mate_ After the move of the text, I could no longer reo vlve the threat P·B5. 31. PxP, of course, allows perpetual check. So does 31. P·QN4. Q·Q4ch; 32. K·N l (B-N2? p.Q7!l. Q.Q5ch, etc. Seeing the game slip out of my hands naturally heightened my fag· ged-out condition_ i! I remember cor· rectly that happens even when one is young-and I became so demoralized that instead of taking one of the drawing lines available I added blunder to blun· der and even lost the game. I did not see that I really had a sly winning chance if Black was not satisfied with a draw. After 31. P·QN4. Q.Q4ch; 32. K·Nl Black might bave tried to win with P-Q7, which looks indeed murderous. But then 33. Q·R4ch would have forced Black to interpose his Queen (K.N3?, 34. P·B5ch, and in the end Black loses his Queen.) Then. 33 .......... Q·R4; 34. QxQch, KJ(Q; 35. R-Q7. R·QN3; 36. RxQP. RxP; 37. R.Q7 would have won at least another Pawn, and tbe black King's exposed postition would still have made him subject to aU sorts of mating attacks.

I don't recollect the few remaining moves of the game. I believe I played 31. R·K7, hoping for another chance to play P·85, and he replied Q-KR4, forcing the exchange of Queens. Then, after 33. PxP, he won my Knight's Pawn with R·N3, and I failed to pull my King out with KN2 and 35. K·BS, which would have been my last chance to draw. The rest was dead silence.

I hope the reader will enjoy this game as much as it made me suffer. Even Michel-by the way one of the nicest of chess masters~"pressed great regret at the blunder with which I spoiled a little work of art.

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Chess in the " aIled -Off" by FRED M. WREN

All 1I111! we know who lie in goo/ " that the u;all is strQllg; And that OO(;h dtl{l is like II year, , \ !I,:ar whose Milt are long.

TilE BALLARD 010' READING GAOL by OSCAR WILDE

Some or you probably know more about Billy Couture than I do. He has been mentioned occasionally in various chess publications, including CHESS LIFE, as an expert or master chess player who, for the past eight ycars, has been residing in one or another of Massachusetts' less exclusive penal in­stitutions. Being a firm believer in chess as a panacea for almost any physical or mental ailment, and knowing [rom experience that wben a guy is playing chess he isn' t getting into trouble anywhere else, he has organized and promoted chess activity wherever he has been.

Without any snide references to "a captive audience" i t appears that he has actually taught more than a hundred other prisoners to play chess. He has played correspondence chess whcnever he could raise the price of enrollment in a section. He has writlen a book on chess traps. He has organized a representative team, on which he usually played Board No. 1, to compete with any club team which might visit the prison. Through his efforts, tourn aments among the prisoners, and chess columns in tbc prison papers have become the aceepted order of the day.

He wrote to mc recently, expressing thanks for a few old chess magazines I had sent, and informing me, "My club now boasts of a line-up of 35 good players who ar e constantly battling for ladder position s. Some person unknown sent us some broken chess pieces, and we made six sets from it by carving dupllCites for the broken and miSSing pieces. Soon we should have at least enough for all member, of our club to be matched at one se"ing, something we are unable to do n_. The boys here just love playing. Keeps their minds occupied and away from trouble. I have two complete peg·in sets that J tixed up out of old and broken odds and ends of sels that came in. I am putting them up as prizes for the high­est scorers in our next round·robin tournament "

When asked where and when he learned to play chess he said that when he was a kid in Rhode Island he used to earn a little spending money by mowing the lawn and tendins: the garden or a doctor who was a keen chess player. When Billy saw !he chess pieces set up on a table in the garden, he asked th e doctor about them, and about the game. The genial old gentleman insis ted on teaching the boy to play, and ap· parently he took 10 the game like the proverbial duck to ~vater. Billy says. " I was prelty close to the master class, hav· m g played over the board and won from tbe following well· known players : Waller Suesman and Albert Martin of Rhode Island, Sven Brask, Frank Rubens, Arthur Freeman, and W. W. Adams of Massachusdts, Ed Roman and Stanley Wysanski of Connecticut, and George Partos and Ed Trull of New Jer­sey." He modestly qualified this report with the statement "or cou rse, that was beCore I came here, and all of tbes; games mentioned were fric ndly informal games, not league or tournament games."

This is not a pica for a pardon or a parole or a commuta­tion of sentence for the incarcerated chess expert. It's not even a request for a new trial for him, although he says that he is now in possession of evid ence proving that he was innocent of the crime {or which he is serving a sentence of Courteen to seventeen years. He wrote recenlly : "The State Supreme Court is considering the affidav its oC the two men who arc guilty of the crime I've been serving time for. All the papers h8"e been in the Chid Juslicc's hands s ince the middle of March. Hope they reach a decision soon."

lie has composed a few problems, several of which have been published in various papers and magazines. l!ere is one

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he sent me on a Christmas ca rd. I a m not enough of a prob. lem fan to know whether it is good or not, but "Chess Life" problemists may get a kick out of it.

Whit lt m 4l t u In Ihr ..

His letters are remarkably free from bit terness, and he realizes that such mattcrs must take their appointed course, through the channels of cons ti tuted authority. All be can do is to keep plugging, trying by the application of chess princi­ples to turn his lOSing game of life into a win-or at least a draw.

I was going to ask that some of our generous readers ar· r~nge to send this chess enthusiast a batch of old chess maga­zines or books, or perhaps an old set of chess pieces whieh would not have to be repaired before being used. But the Superintendent of his institution Informed me that they must frown on singling out one of their inmates for special atten­lion. Supt. Gavi n wrote in part, "We allow Chess for the bene. fi t it may be for the men playing ii, in taking up lime con­:;t ructively, while learning and participating in a very involved game. We do not favor personal correspondence growing out of the chess games, because of some bad experiences we have had in this and other lines. On several occcasions when our guard has bcen down, and our hearts have ruled our heads inmates have solicited money, gifts, emotional entanglement~ with innocent outSiders, to the grief of the outsider and the embarrassment of the institution authorities."

So if any reader feels inclined to assist the cause of io. sti tu tional chess without entering in to emolional correspond­ence with Billy Couture, any material of the sort mentioned above may be scnt to CHESS CLUB, Box 100, South Walpole, Massachusetts. U anyone would like to playa game of postal chess with Billy. giving him a chance for competition for which there would be no vexing section entry fee , confining correspondence to the bare game moves, I'm sure he would appreciate it, so send your fi rs t move to hi m at the address above.

Here is a sample of the opposition which you may expect.

FRENCH DEFENSE (Notlt. by Couturlt )

E.rJ How4Ird W. J. Coutu,. Whit. BI.ck

1. P·K4 P·K3 2. P-04 p.Q4 3. PxP PxP

The exchange varialion, wi th open lines. favoring Black.

4. N·KB3 B·KNS A pin is always helpful.

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S. B·K2 6. N·QB3

B-Q3 N·K2

Here 6 ......... , P·B3 wou ld protect the QP.

7. P-KR3 ....... . Whi le should have completed develop· ment first. Text leads to trouble.

7. ........ B_R4 8. 0 ·0 0 -0 9. N-QNS ........

Bothersome, but not serious fo r Black. 9. ........ B_QNS 10. B·Q2 P.QB4 11. P·QB3 ........

Best is 11. BxB, PxB, making the pawns weak by doubling them.

11. . ....... 12. PxP 13. QN-Q4 14. N.R2

Preparing {or 15. P·KB4. 14 ........ . IS. P·QN4 16. P-KB4

B-R4 P-QR3 QN·B3

B·KN3 B·B2

N·KB4 Trying to provoke another weakening pawn advance by White.

17. KN-B3 N·N6 This could, and should have been pre· ventcd.

18. R-Kl 19. P-BS 20. P-N4

N-KS B-KR4 B-NlI!

A deep move which pays off. 21. PxB Q-B2!

Not too bad either. 22. B.KBI ........

22. B·R3 would be no beUer. Black now announced mate in 10.

22. ........ Q-N6ch 23. B·N2 Q-B7ch 24. K·Rl N-N6ch 2S. K-R2 N-K7 dis.ch. 26. K·RI Q·NBch 27. RxQ N·N6ch 28. K·R2 N·KS dis.ch. 29. N·KS BxNch 30. B·84 BxBch 31. K-Rl N·B7 mate

.ChessLife IN THE UNITED STATES

The Midland Michigan Chess Club de­feated the Flint Gambiteen on 12 boards recently with a smashing score of 11 .1 and benme the Saginaw Valley Cham­pions.

Atlempts are being made to arrange a Fischer-Reshevsky match of 16 games -8 to be played in New York and 8 in Los Angeles. The total prize and ex· pense purse is $7,oOQ.-h aif of which is to be supplied by the American Chess FoundaUon and the other half by the Herman Steiner Chess Club. There is no doubt that this would be one of the most interesting of all chess matches ever played in this country.

The Dallas Chess Club, .headed by Texas State Champion, Ken Smith, trounced the University of Texas with a score of 8% ·1 % recently.

International Grandmaster Arthur Bis· guier will leave on May 28th to compete in the international tournament being conducted in Moscow.' He is the first American Master to compete in an in­ternational tourna ment in the Soviet Un ion in many years.

In the Fourth Annual Lake Ontario Open held in Rochester, Paul Vaitonls of Hamilton, Ontario, a former Clnadi· an Champion, took fint place with 4·1.

Tom Wiswell giving a mixed simultaneous exhibition in Reading, Pa , Wis· well has held the Free Style World Chlmpionship in checkers since 1951. He is one of the few players in this country who will take on both chess and checker players in mISS competition and fare well against both. His next exhibit will be at the Chess and Checker Club of New York, 212 West 42nd St. on June 25th, 1961 at 2 PM. Reser .... tions to play may b. made in ad­vince by writing John Fursa in nre of the club. The fee is $2.00 per board.

MAY, 1961

The traditional Connecticut-Massachu­setts match was won by Connecticut with a score of 17 lh-12 lh . It was played in New London.

Matthew's Chess Shop in New Orleans has all types of chess sets, boards and paraphenallia . Morphy's chess set and chess cabinet are among some of the items that can be seen there.

A luncheon conference of the USCF College Chess Committee was held re­cently in New York City. ICLA Presi· dent Peter Berlow and Chairman Mor­decai Treblow oonducted the meeting. Past USCF President Harold 1\1. Phillips attended as d,id CHESS LIFE Editor Frank Brady.

LeRoy Johnson won the champion· ship of the Westchester California Chess Club with a score of 5·1.

The Rockland Chess Club in Spring Valley, N. Y .. boasts Samuel Reshevsky as an honorary member and as an ac­tive advisor.

The Michigan Chess Association passed a resolution at their board of directors meeting recently, I ) that regional tournill ' ments be held in that area and 2) that USCF be congratulated on the new for­mat of CHESS LIFE. Thanks to Jlck O' Keefe, Fred Morningstar, V. E. Van­denburg and the entire state of Michigan!

Daniel Gutman is the Princeton Chess Club Champion. He scored 8·0 in their annual tournament recently. Peter Ber­low was proclaimed undergraduate cham· pion for his score of 5-3.

USCF member Bert Brice·Nash died recently. He resided with his wife, In Webb City, Mo.

In a letter to the U. S. Chess Federa· tion, F . L. Cooper, Director of Adver­tising of the N. Y. Life Insu ra nce Com­pany, stated : " We have the impression that we have already heard from all the chessplayers in the country . . . our photographer set up the chess board improperly (in their full page ad that ran in most publications in the United States) .. . I have told those who have taken the time 10 wr ite that we are thinking of forming a chess club here and at the advertising agency so that we wouldn' t make such a goof again."

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The city Challengers Tournament in Lincoln, Nebraska, conducted quite some time ago, was won by Anton Sildmets with a score of 7-1. The Lincoln City Chess Club sponsored the event.

A match between the Finger Lakes Chess Society and the Bath-Hornell, N. Y. Chess Clubs ended in 3Y2-3V2 draw.

Colonel Edward P. F_ Eagan, Chair­man of the People to People Sports Com­mittee, requests that anyone interested in playing a postal game can do so by writing to Manfred Strohlein, Kauern­dorf 51, Uber Kulmbach, Germany. Mr. Strohlein is very interested in establish­ing a postal chess and correspondence relationship with several Americans.

The new Providence Chess Club Cham· pion is Peter Gould.

Receiving mail for years from New Orleans Chess Club Treasurer, Jean Lindsey, CHESS UFE has asked several times whether Lindsey was male or female. Never receiving a reply - we now implore an answer from the mem­bership - is Lindsey a man or a woman?!

George "Bundy" Baylor of Pittsburgh, has been invited to Holland by Prof. A. D. de Groot to help translate a chess· psychology book from Dutch to English. He will work on the propect for three months.

., .... ~.""» At left is the South Boston Lithuanian Chess Club playing against the Brook­lyn Lithuanians. At first board was G. Sveikauskas (left) against Edward Staknys.

Out of the news for awhile, Robert "1.N-QR3" Durkin has been making him­self known in Jersey chess circles again_ He has just won three tournaments in a very short span of time: The Atlantic City Chess Club Championship, the South Jersey Chess Association Championship and the recently concluded Rating Im­provement Tournament.

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Cndoubtedly the brightest meteor on the American chess scene in recent months has been 20-year old Raymond Weinstein. The Brooklyn College sopho­more has just added the strong Marshall Chess Club championship to his belt with a 10-2 score, after starting off the year with an outstanding 3rd place finish in the U. S_ Championship, in which he de­feated three international grandmasters and qualified to represent the USA in the interzonal tournament to be held later this year.

Prior to these recent successes Ray· mond had already earned the right to represent our country in two internation­al events-the student team tournament in Leningrad and the international team tourney at Leipzig. Ray's 7lh·2!h score at Leningrad helped the U.S. team win the title and shared the prize for the best score on third board, while at Leip· zig he chipped in 6lh-1"lh to help lift the team to its 2nd place finish.

Weinstein's rise to chess stardom has been achieved with a rapid string of tournament successes in the last few years. In 1957 he won the Marshall Jun­ior and Long Island Amateur titles, and the next year he copped his first major event-the U.S. Junior at Homestead, Fla. In the U.S. Open at Omaha in 1959, Raymond after a slow start put on a burst at the finish and by defeating Benko in a sensational last round game eata·

The following is Raymond's best game from last year's student team tourna· ment. His opponent is subtly outplayed, so that despite making no obvious cr· rors he soon finds himself in an un­tenable position.

NIMZO-INDIAN DEFENSE Leningrad, 1960 Weinstein Raymond

(USA) Berthold

Germany) Black

(East White

1. P·Q4 N-KB3 2. P·QB4 P-K3 3. N·QB3 B·NS" 4. P-K3 P-B4 5. B-Q3 0-0 6. N.B3 P·Q4 7. 0·0 PxBP 8. BxP P-QN3 9. Q-K2 B·N2 10. PxP BxP 11. P·K4 QN·Q2

White's game is slightly more able, though the chances are mately equal.

12, B·KNS 13. K-Rl 14. OR-Ql 15. B-N3 16. B,B2

MAY, 1961

Q·Nl P·QR3

P-N4 B-Q3 B-BS

comfort­approxi-

by Charles Henin pulted himself into a tie for 2nd prize with a score of 9lh-2lh. The same year he tied for 1st in the New Jersey Open and last year he tied for the Marshall title and won the strong North Central Open at Milwaukee.

A double thrill for Raymond was his defeating Reshevsl-y in the final round of the U.S. Championship and thereby clinching the third prize. It was a fine

Raymond Weinstein

17. R·Q4 ....... . Developing, and with a subtle threat.

.. ... ... B-B3 Black overlooks the threat. Belter is ........ , ExB; 18. NxB, Q-B5.

18. BxB Ox. 19. N-QS! ••••••••

A surprising and effective shot. Black had anticipated only 19. P-K5? BxN! winning a pawn.

........ 20. PxP 21. PxB 22. Q·Q2

.xN Q-Q3 Ox. ••••••••

The net result of White's "positional" combination has been simply to leave him with the better development. Black's game is worse than it looks.

........ QR.Kl 23. R·BI Q-N2 24. Q·B4 R-K2 25. P-KR3 KR·Kl 26. B-N3 R·KS

This proves to be fatal. 26 . .. ...... , P-KR3 was essential.

27. RxR RxR And not ....... . , QxR because of 27. BxPch!

28. Q-Q6 ....... . White has steadily built up the pressure, and the numerous threats (R·B7, N-N5,

game, but the ending was rather strik· ing. Reshevsky, in a difficult but hardly hopeless position, let his time expire with several moves leU to be made. He was obviously worn out, after a long and tough tournament. Young Weinstein however looked fresh as a daisy!

Raymond is affable and energetic, quite enthusiastic and "collegiate" in manner. His major is psychology, which he hopes to enter as a profession. Other than chess he likes gymnastics and weight·lifting, and is currently taking mambo lessons.

Ray lives in Brooklyn with his family, and a chess·enthusiastic family it is. His father Harvey, no mean player himself, is a regular participant in tournaments, and deserves a good deal of credit for tutoring Raymond, though the pupil ra· ther surpassed the teacher in this case! Father and son often travel together to tournaments, and for larger events the whole family generally goes along, in· eluding Ray's mother and his 12-year old brother William, an "up and com­ing player" according to Raymond. We'll watch out!

Weinstein has an aggressive, positional chess style common to many of the younger masters. He knows the open­ings very well and employs a wider range than many other leading players, but always plays to gain and hold the advantage from the opening bell.

Q-B6) cannot all be defended. N-KI

29. Q·QB6! ....... . Forcing a winning simplification.

. ... ... . QxQ 30. RxQ P-R3

Black must lose a pawn since BxPch! was . again threatened. Weinstein now concludes the game with admirable tech" lllque.

31. RxQRP 32. B-QS! 33. R·R8 34. BxP 3S. B-N8ch 36. R-KB8 37. K-Nl 38. R-K8 39. B·QS

Zugzwang! ........

40. R-K6ch 41. N.Q4ch

N·B4 R·K7 K-R2 N·Q3 K·Nl N·Q6 N-KS

N(6jxBP ........ K·B3 K·B4

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Not a.1I of Raymond's games arc so "quiet." Ilel'e is a Weinstein brilliancy.

KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE Metropolitan Leaglle Match. 1958 Bri. n Owe ns (M. nh. ttan)

White T. P.Q4 2. P·QB4 3. P·KN3 4. B.N2 S. P·K4 6. N·K2 7. P.QS

Rl ymond Weinstein (M., .. h. lI )

Bilek N·K83 P·KN3

B·N2 0 ·0 p.o' P.84 N·R3

The Benoni setup is very popular among many of the young masters.

8. 0 ·0 R·N! 9. QN·a3 N·a2

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10. P·QR4 11. P·RS 12. PxP e.p. 13. N.B4 14. p)(p e.p.

P·QR3 P.QN4

R, P P·K4 .. ......

This C3pture is usually an error, as it is here. The backward QP is easily ddend· ed, and the opening of the position fav· ors black.

........ 15. KN·K2 16. P·B4

Black attacks wilh 17. NxN 18. N·R4

QN xP R·Kl

N·QSI swift violence!

P.xN NxPI

A pleasing disregard for material! And qui te e£rective.

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19. NxR QxN 20. Q·83 S.NS!

Very pretty indeed. Even White must have been impressed by now!

21. Q.Q3 ........ 21. QxB, P·Q6ch; 22. K·HI, N·B7ch; 23. RxN, QxR, leads to a quick demise.

And

........ 22. Q·R3 23. Q·R5 24. RxQ 25. P·R3 26. P·KN4 27. a _a 28. R.Q5 29. a xp 30. KR·QI 31. RxR

Black won.

N.B4 P·Q6 Q, Q R·K7 a·B4 8·KS N, B P·Q7 .. B

RxR(4) B, P

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